Santa Monica as an Edge City
Santa
Monica as a city has grown along the linearity of Los Angeles, thus making it
an edge city. The bedroom community stage, was followed by retail and services
that came in due to increased populations and dominated the economic
development scheme of Santa Monica in the 1960's, and moreover, the city is
experiencing a technological boom as a technopole
that has risen to an international status. The city currently has 74,237 jobs
and they are predominantly in the Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services.
("Economic & Demographic," nd ) The only criteria that Santa
Monica does not fulfill to be considered an edge city is that there are more
units (YR 1970: 1,178,006 & YR 2000: 1,809,564) of housing than jobs.
("SOCDS Census
Data:," ) This edge city has
grown out of the central city as seen in the 1957 map of Los Angeles, and is
fueled by further aerospace industries along the coast line including SMO and
LAX. Los Angeles is indicated by the pentagon, growing areas by the
pepperonis/circles, and the stars are the airport locations.
References: "Economic & Demographic Profile: Business & Industries." City of Santa Monica. http://www01.smgov.net/business/demographics/2006busind.htm
"SOCDS Census Data: Output for Santa Monica city, CA." HUD User. http://socds.huduser.org/Census/housing.odbmsacitylist=31100*0600070000*1.0&metro=cbsa (accessed April 3, 2014).
References: "Economic & Demographic Profile: Business & Industries." City of Santa Monica. http://www01.smgov.net/business/demographics/2006busind.htm
"SOCDS Census Data: Output for Santa Monica city, CA." HUD User. http://socds.huduser.org/Census/housing.odbmsacitylist=31100*0600070000*1.0&metro=cbsa (accessed April 3, 2014).